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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
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I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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My health is very much improved.
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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
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President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.
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Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.
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When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.
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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
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We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.
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This is the moment of your defeat you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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